Mortar Attack Kills Six in Iraqi Shiite Village

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the police said, adding that the assailants might have been aiming at a nearby police station.Sunni Muslim insurgents often target the security forces, as well as Shiite civilians and Sunni tribal militiamen paid by the Shiite-led government to combat al Qaeda-linked groups.Violence in Iraq climbed back to its highest level in five years in 2013, when nearly 9,000 people were killed, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations./149